By Kristin Jamieson Editor’s Note: Every birth is as unique as the woman giving birth. Births vary from child to child and in our era of modern medicine, most births occur with little complication. But every birth is a beautiful story–a story a mother remembers for the rest of her life. We have asked some...

    A busy mom explains that she feels guilty because she is no longer able to serve in her church like she once did. Pastor John encourages this mom to come to church hungry to receive. He also reminds her of her ministry to her children and the significance of that service. We can...

As of October 1, Rachel Held Evans’ book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, has been out for a full year. Already there have been a number of penetrating reviews written by the likes of Kathy Keller and Trillia Newbell. These reviews have a recurring concern—Evans dismissive spirit towards the Bible and her errant interpretation of the same...

By   By Melissa McDonald In the middle of the Bible there is a poem describing an excellent wife, the Proverbs 31 woman. It’s a bit curious. Her children are mentioned only in passing and half of the poem discusses her work spinning wool and flax into yarn and selling textiles for a large profit....

  By Jessalyn Hutto There was a time when miscarriage seemed like a foreign concept to me. I was young, recently married and could see only beautiful, healthy babies in my future. Yes, I had heard scary stories of women experiencing miscarriage. I had even been discipled by a woman who experienced the pain of...

By Melissa Parnell Somewhere in the midst of hoping to be a great mother it morphed into the distorted desire to become a perfect one. I can empathize with the dispute the disciples had in Luke 22. This is the scene in Luke’s Gospel (at the worst timing) when the disciples argue about who is...